Blog: Insights and Updates on Addiction Treatment and Mental Health

These are the 10 FAQ about Adult ADHD treatment, including medications, therapy, CBT, mindfulness, prognosis and life issues.

When I tell people that I've been sober for more than 20 years, they usually offer congratulations with a comment such as “we admire your...

Alcohol treatment practitioners have different views on abstinence. Some take the approach that it’s possible to have a goal of...

In 1969, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross described the five stages of grief. In my experience, these also characterise aspects of confronting...

All of us, presumably, would like to be at peace. Most alcoholics and drug users are restless. They can’t sit still. They’re not...

In an earlier blog, we briefly commented on how Special Forces (SF) use meditation techniques as part of training and preparation (see...

Suffering is part of what it is to be human. The “art of living” (Discourses of Epictetus, 1.15.3) is in large part how we cope with...

We hear the cry of many, and perhaps we have done it ourselves on occasion – “what is the point of it all?” We do it when we are sick,...

Alcoholics can’t stop at just the one drink. Whatever the good intentions, one drink is followed by another until oblivion is reached. It...

In an earlier blog from last year, called Be Still – Mindfulness in Lockdown, we talked about how lockdown was an opportunity to stop...

Alcoholics and drug users find it tough to stick to a treatment programme. Motivation comes and goes. Discipline is something different....

Do we have three brains? Now we know that in the early century XX neuroscientists were able to understand the roots of some of Jon’s...

Reptilians Among Us Late in the morning in April 1899 Christfried was crossing the cobbled central square of Erlangen, in Bayern. His...

I want to vs I have to You know what you have to do, but you can’t help doing the opposite. How many times have you been there? Don’t...

Understanding Opioids Over the past few decades, much has been revealed about opioid dependence that has shaped our comprehension of...